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By mikethemadbiologist on November 20, 2009.

Happy Friday. Lotsa links for your weekend. Science:

Hippos are photographed biting a crocodile to death

Virus helps save the American Chestnut tree

Say hello to a titanic ancestor

Can We Build Our Way to Reduced Carbon Emissions?

Heritability of sociopathy

Climate change catastrophe took just months

Other:

Why you can't trust a damn thing they say

They forgot

Facebook Confessions

President Announces Realistic Hope Agenda

Afghan Escalation Would Make One-Year Pentagon Budget Almost As Big as Entire 10-Year Health Bill

What the Future May Hold

A false choice in health care battle

You have no rights

Why the Federal Reserve should LITERALLY throw money out of helicopters

Pinker on "What the Dog Saw."

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